Duke is straight out of Harry Potter. I loved the campus, the dramatic multi-colored brick buildings with gothic architecture. So beautiful!

Very jealous of all the prospective students taking campus tours! Can I please, please go back to undergraduate (and be 18 again)?

Duke’s stadium was a small, open-air arena. I’m used to watching college games in big professional stadiums, so this was a very interesting and welcomed change. I really loved the atmosphere! Almost made me want to cheer for the Blue Devils. Almost. 🙂

(It filled up.)

Right before we got to Duke, I ate a PB and jelly sandwich and an apple.

And once we settled into our seats, we watched an awesome parachute show!

And then I hunted down some of these awesome cinnamon sugar donuts and ate half (so 6 mini donuts).

After a wonderful game (Miami won!), we left the beautiful campus and headed straight towards Whole Foods.

We did a search for vegetarian restaurants around campus, but nothing seemed as appealing as the wonderful Whole Foods hot bar. Oh Whole Foods! I missed you!

In my takeaway:

Green beans

Sweet potatoes

Tofu

Quinoa mix

Veggies and Spinach

On the drive back home, I decided I finally felt 100% better and called up Nicole to see if she wanted to for a run. I’m hoping to do 18 miles (my very last run before the marathon) tomorrow but knew I needed to do a test run tonight. We did 3.0 wonderful miles! Yay, I’m back.

I am glad you guys had fun! Thanks for tracking me down at the game – it was so nice chatting with you for a few minutes (although my dad spent the entire car ride back to Wilmington saying – “So, wait, I still don’t understand – how exactly do you know her?”) We will get you guys back once basketball season rolls around. 🙂

Yay! Glad you’re feeling better and it looks like you had such a wonderful time at Duke 🙂

PS. Caitlin, I told you last week I was running in my first 5K and you told me to let you know how it went…well…it was AMAZING! You were absolutely right, I had so much fun. I blogged about it if you’re interested. 😉 Thanks again for helping motivate me to do this, you’re awesome.

Can we all please go back to college? Sometimes I get so homesick for my college town it hurts – especially football season! I must say though that being a Hokie means that I cannot ever root for Miami, though I am happy that your team won 🙂

HopeOctober 16, 2010, 9:45 pm

So glad you’re feeling better! Mmm those mini donuts are so good, lobe the whole cinnamon/sugar combo!
Duke looks amazing! My college was a mix of old and new buildings but nothing as amazing as your pics! I totally wish I could go back to my first undergraduate year sometimes!

Your comment about wanting to go back to college (and be 18 again) got me thinking. When I graduate, after 5 years at university, will I want to go back? At this stage (end of year 4, final assignments, stress, academic writing) if I never see another lecture theatre again I will be a happy lady. But who knows if I’ll get the study itch again?! But I definatly wouldn’t want to be 18 again. I’m much happier, healthier, more confident and overall a better person now. I don’t wanna be 18 and learn those tough life lessons all over again!

i guess i feel like i had extremely short-term vision at 20 and that was really, really nice. no worries about finances or planning for the future. i just went to class, partied, hung out with my friends, and had a blast. someone else paid for my health insurance, i didn’t have a car payment, my rent was 1/4 the cost that it is now. i was broke and happy. 🙂

KatieOctober 17, 2010, 10:08 am

Wow. I just turned 20 and I thought all 20 year olds were like me with bills and all but reality check- guess not. I pay for my insurance(s) and work and have a car payment and school soon. I look at all my high school friends pics on facebook and they’re all partying and drinking and I’m like “wish I was them”. Now that I read stuff like this I guess I’m learning the hard stuff and becoming an adult NOW(?), so that I can be smart about the really important things later.

It’s so weird about how people are in difference life stages at different times, huh? I think you actually have a HUGEEEEE advantage to be learning adult stuff now because I really think the Hus and I both spent way too much time goofing off and not being responsible, especially financially. Life is long! Responsibility helps a lot to making life easier overall. You are smarted than me!!!!

Katie, I’m with you! I’m so looking forward to having money from a full time job to pay my bills with! And I never party, I don’t have time. I guess Caitlin has a good point that everyone is different at this stage of like. Personally I study hard, work (when I have a job) take care of a house and a boyfriend, pay my own bills (for the most part, parents are kind when needed) and worry about where I will be in 5 years time. I can’t think short term, but I wish I could relax and party a bit!

I love the Duke campus! I visited last April and it was so cool to see the Gothic architecture. I had no idea it would be like that. Looks like a cool stadium too. I went to UT and our stadium holds 100,000!

oh, the sad-little-tiny-squished-duke-whole foods. i miss it too. glad you loved the campus! every time i go back, i wish i could start college too.

JulieOctober 17, 2010, 9:50 am

I’m so glad you came up to experience a Duke game. We live in Durham and love it. There are some good vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Carrboro and Chapel Hill if you guys make the trip up again. Check out Butternut Squash restaurant and Sage restaurant. Also, if you come back again you should check out the trails in Duke forest and the American Tobacco trail near the ball park.

Catilin!! You were right in Durham yesterday right in my neck of the woods!! I love that whole foods hot bar right by campus! 🙂 I eat there often with my boyfriend. I’m glad you loved the campus, you should come back in the summer and check out the gardens, it’s pretty epic.

There was a residence hall at my college (in Berkeley) that looked like Hogwarts and I really wanted to live there, but it was an all-guy dorm.

But that’s okay because it turns out that the inside was only a regular dorm building, not a magical place of wizardry fun.

BethanyOctober 17, 2010, 4:59 pm

Glad you enjoyed the Duke game! I’m a graduate student at UNC and there are a lot of great vegetarian restaurant in Chapel Hill (about 15 min from Duke). Yesterday, I went to an Ethiopian restaurant called “Queen of Sheba” and I highly recommend it! Its a fun experience since there are no utensils and you eat with your hands. Some other great places in Chapel Hill are “Sage” and “Butternut Squash”.

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